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The United States Department of Justice in disrepute for its shady Democratic Party affiliations, politically motivated policies, uneven handed justice, as well as other USA federal bodies - including those with legally incarcerated federal staff and who have stolen bitcoins - have apparently seized the domain name btc-e.com. This was...

The United States presidential election was held November 08 2016 with vote counting continuing November 09 and beyond. The election saw an upset win by the Republican nominee Donald Trump over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Here we examine the question: What was the immediate effect of the presidential election...

CoinSource today unveiled its first Bitcoin ATM machine at 4796 Niagara Avenue in San Diego, CA. Located in Ocean Beach in the heart of San Diego, the newest CoinSource machine joins their network of fully operational BTMs, with other premier locations in Las Vegas’ Miracle Mile and New York City’s...

Gemini Trust Company, a bitcoin exchange founded by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, revealed today that it received launch authorization from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS). Gemini has begun briging on customers and will officially open for trading on Thursday October 8th, at which point customers...

Safe Cash Payment Technologies has raised $1.12 million from major technology and business investors, including Bialla Ventures, InfoSpace founder Naveen Jain, veteran trader Vuk Bulajic, Vinh Vo and founder Chris Kitze. According to the startup, the Safe Cash platform will enable users use their bank cash as a digital asset,...

Yesterday, the cutting-edge of medicine met avant-garde technology as the New York Stem Cell Foundation announced that they would be accepting donations through bitcoin payment company, BitPay. Since its foundation in 2005, the NYSCF has become a leader in using stem cell research and technology to find cures for a...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today ordered a bitcoin options trading platform to cease "illegally offering bitcoin options". It is the first action by the CFTC against a bitcoin options trading platform. The CFTC concludes that it has jurisdiction as it holds that bitcoin and other digital currencies...

OTC-traded Bitcoin Shop, Inc. (BTCS) announced yesterday that it invested $1.5m into Spondoolies-Tech Ltd, an Israeli transaction verification server manufacturer. BTCS' investment in Spondoolies comes on the heels of April news that BTCS and Spondoolies intend merge, and the investment is the first step in the merger, according to the...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (USAO-NDCA), assessed a $700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC). According to FinCEN, Ripple...

The drop in bitcoin's value naturally continued to be a theme through the Inside Bitcoins New York City conference especially on the investment panel. Despite the relatively low price of bitcoin, some investors are still very much involved in investing, whether short or long, in the currency. Some investors believe...

Some of the more interesting discussions at this week’s Inside Bitcoins conference in New York City included panels on the Bitcoin startup ecosystem, the do’s and don’ts of Bitcoin investing, and institutional investing in Bitcoin. Bitcoin Startup Ecosystem The panelists discussed the prospects for starting up a company in the...

The third annual Inside Bitcoins conference in New York City kicked off with revelations on how the Bitcoin eco-system is evolving and now and future prospects for the Blockchain technology. In his introduction of the first keynote - Pantera Capital’s Dan Moorehead, Mecklermedia founder Alan Meckler noted the definitive proportional...

Wisconsin-based Bitcoin exchange hub Coinigy announced that it has raised $100,000 in seed funding. Coinigy indicated that the funds will be used to improve a multitude of existing professional Bitcoin trading services as well as support development of a new universal exchange API. Users can apparently access a total of...

MecklerMedia Corporation (OTCQX: MECK) last week announced the keynote speakers for Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo, taking place on April 27-29, 2015 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. The event’s keynotes will be presented by: Perianne Boring, Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce Senior Columnist, Michael J....

HONG KONG and NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2015 - Inside Bitcoins producer MecklerMedia and AllCoinsNews.com have agreed to a cross-promotional partnership for four upcoming Inside Bitcoins events in 2015, in Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong and New York. AllCoinsNews.com will be a media partner for those events, which will be held...

Leading bitcoin wallet company Coinbase announced yesterday it has launched a regulated bitcoin exchange, the first in the United States. The company indicated that the goal of establishing the Coinbase Exchange was to bring increased stability to the bitcoin ecosystem. Coinbase posted the following on its corporate blog: Coinbase Exchange provides...

Chicago-based venture capital firm NIN Ventures has announced it will enable Bitcoin owners tap into venture capital through digital currency payment enabler Snapcard. Bitcoin owners can invest in the NIN Ventures Technology (QP) Fund by signing up at nin.vc and verifying their accreditation. The next step is to complete the...

The news induced a shudder across the bitcoin ecosystem. Yesterday, one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges Bitstamp announced that its services were temporarily suspended due to a security issue. Apparently, Bitstamp's hot wallet services were hacked. The exchange issued a the following statement slightly after midnight UTC on January 6th....